Descend- Seeing Stars, Sean Oswald [best e books to read .txt] 📗

of one hundred pounds added onto her back and still managed to leap about one hundred and seventy-five feet. The final leap was in many ways the most impressive. They piled a full three hundred pounds onto her. She was a bit denser than a human but that was still likely twice her weight.

As she prepared her legs coiled and her tail shot out straight. Her legs strained and she leapt upward, managing to swipe a claw a full one hundred and sixty-one feet in up the cliff face. She did seem to have a bit more trouble with that descent, but she made it down without falling.

      The crowd cheered for her. It was an impressive show of strength and agility all tied up into one. Jay joined in the applause and felt genuine pride in his wife. It wasn’t like he had any emotional connection with her, but he did have respect for hard work, and if the price of this alliance was to be bound to her, it could certainly be worse. That and the votes of approval from his other wives went a long way with him.

      Jay looked around at the weights they had available. If he used all of them, he would be able to add about twelve hundred pounds but that wasn’t enough for what he had in mind. So, he dropped to one knee and punched his hand into the ground. With a burst of PSI energy, he shoved a construct all the way down till it hit the A’snkarnt metal fifteen feet down.

      Some quick math with the portion of his brain partitioned for calculations told him that one cubic foot of the earth here was likely to weigh between two thousand and three thousand pounds depending on what was in it. He realized he needed to come up with a better way of describing that portion of his brain but put that off as a problem for another day.

      Once upon a time the A’snkarnt metal had seemed completely indestructible. But that was before metalmancy and before having stats that were above forty thousand. The outer hull of the ship was much denser and reinforced with energy fields. This internal decking was durable but not reinforced.

      Jay reached down with his power and forced the floor to do his will. The metal bent up into a cup shape fifteen feet wide and fifteen feet deep. Not including the twisted metal of the floor, the soil and rock was about one hundred and twenty-three cubic feet and came in at just over one hundred and thirty-five tons. With the metal it topped one hundred and fifty.

      Still Jay’s new max bench press as more than twenty-thousand pounds. He chuckled as he considered that. It wasn't like he had any equipment that he could set up to create a gym like that. And that wasn’t factoring if he used his kinetic manipulation.

      As he bent down and picked up the metal bowl that he had created, it was about the equivalent of what two pounds would have been like back on Earth for old Jay. Of course, the expression often heard when moving furniture that it wasn’t how heavy it was rather how awkward, was definitely appropriate here.

      He propped the bowl up on his head and held it in place, maximizing his strength and durability. He wanted to make this look easy, not like a struggle. Jay wondered if this was godlike power now. Comic books grounded him again. He remembered the hulk lifting a mountain or something like that. Quick calculations said that must have weighed billions of tons, so he was no hulk. Even a simple skyscraper was a couple hundred thousand tons and many heroes had done things like that. Jay smiled and scoffed. He would just have to be content with his paltry powers.

      Then he bent his legs down and pushed off with enough force that Namur-san and Eesa were both knocked back by the release of force. The crowd shrieked in awe as Jay soared up over the cliff. He had already scanned and realized that this was a massive space in the ship set up for some reason by the A’snkarnt. The ceiling was a full six miles up, so he had plenty of room.

      With Uremi’s power now he had the ability of flight. It was not winged, or propulsion based but like many other PSI abilities it defied his limited understanding of the way the universe worked. He could now simply will himself to move through space. Things like distance from the ground, gravity, speed, weight being carried all factored into how much PSI was required, but he had absurd amounts now. So, he flew up until he was nothing more than a speck and then let himself start to drop.

      He was coming down at terminal velocity in nothing flat. Jay halfway wanted to see if he could survive the impact. He was 99.9% certain that he could even without erecting a PSI construct to soften the impact. But the force of the impact would be like a bomb going off and might very well kill some of his new allies. That was to say nothing of his newest wife and her father.

      So, he slowed his speed and only hit the ground hard enough to send a dust cloud blasting up into the air. He shielded himself instinctively with a construct because he was more worried about getting dirt in his mouth than he was about the force of the impact. Once he was back upon the ground, he shifted the bowl onto the ground.

      The crowd which had started out in the thousands now numbered in the tens of thousands. There were large floating screens that displayed images of him. They had clearly been in Eesa’s court before and likely still were, but an eruption of